2023 SPEARS Southwest Tour Series TESTING POLICY – REMINDER
2023 SPEARS Southwest Tour Series TESTING POLICY WHICH WILL BEGIN ON MARCH 26th, 2023 NO TESTING THE WEEK OF AN EVENT AT HOST TRACK: There will be no SRL Team testing allowed the week of a race event (Sunday-Thursday) at the track hosting the upcoming SRL race. (This policy begins on [...]
White Cashes in at Irwindale in the “All-Star Showdown 100”
Bakersfield, CA – Linny White survived Saturday night’s “All-Star Showdown 100” for the Spears Pro Late Models presented by Sigma Performance Services, to reach the checkered flag first. The race was called on lap 55 due to curfew, and a pileup that ended the caution-marred event on Irwindale Speedway’s [...]
Gomes Takes Season Opening SRL National / Southwest Tour ‘All-Star Showdown”
Gomes Takes Season Opening SRL National / Southwest Tour ‘All-Star Showdown” Bakersfield, CA - Jacob Gomes was coming off the best season of his racing career in 2022, scoring the Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series championship and earning three series victories. He started 2023 with the biggest win of his [...]
All-Star Showdown Qualifying Results – Raz on Top, Wins Apache Rental Group Fast Time Award
Pos No. Name Best time In lap Best speed Diff Gap Laps 1 42 Kole Raz 00:17.448 2 103.164 2 2 98 Blaine Rocha 00:17.456 1 103.116 00:00.008 00:00.008 2 3 22S Buddy Shepherd 00:17.502 2 102.845 00:00.054 00:00.046 2 4 16 Jacob Gomes 00:17.523 2 102.722 00:00.075 00:00.021 2 5 23 Dan Holtz 00:17.548 1 102.576 00:00.100 00:00.025 2 6 27 John Moore 00:17.565 2 102.477 00:00.117 00:00.017 2 7 44 Jeremy Doss 00:17.571 2 102.442 00:00.123 00:00.006 2 8 13 Sean Hingorani* 00:17.609 2 102.220 00:00.161 00:00.038 2 9 26 Bubba Pollard 00:17.615 1 102.186 00:00.167 00:00.006 2 10 14D Chris Davidson 00:17.630 2 102.099 00:00.182 00:00.015 2 11 79 Barrett Polhemus* 00:17.632 2 102.087 00:00.184 00:00.002 2 12 66 Jeff Bischofberger 00:17.650 2 101.983 00:00.202 00:00.018 2 13 25F Brandon Farrington 00:17.672 2 101.856 00:00.224 00:00.022 2 14 51 Jake Finch 00:17.675 2 101.839 00:00.227 00:00.003 2 15 33 Cale Kanke 00:17.676 2 101.833 00:00.228 00:00.001 2 16 89 Zach Morris* 00:17.696 1 101.718 00:00.248 00:00.020 2 17 22E Chris Eggleston 00:17.714 2 101.615 00:00.266 00:00.018 2 18 1 Dylan Zampa* 00:17.720 2 101.580 00:00.272 00:00.006 2 19 11R Darren Robertson 00:17.722 2 101.569 00:00.274 00:00.002 2 20 22A Andy Allen 00:17.726 2 101.546 00:00.278 00:00.004 2 21 11H Austin Herzog* 00:17.739 2 101.471 00:00.291 00:00.013 2 22 05 Nick Cooper* 00:17.759 2 101.357 00:00.311 00:00.020 2 23 08 Jace Hansen 00:17.764 2 101.329 00:00.316 00:00.005 2 24 17 Zach Telford 00:17.796 1 101.146 00:00.348 00:00.032 2 25 21N Ethan Nascimento, Jr* 00:17.799 2 101.129 00:00.351 00:00.003 2 26 22G Jonathon Gomez 00:17.807 1 101.084 00:00.359 00:00.008 2 27 24 Scott Sanchez 00:17.927 2 100.407 00:00.479 00:00.120 2 28 61 Dennis Rock 00:18.120 1 99.338 00:00.672 00:00.193 2 29 80 Andre Prescott 00:18.325 2 98.226 00:00.877
SRL News and Notes All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway
For Immediate Release: Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series Media Event: The “All-Star Showdown”. The headlining division will be the Super Late Models, competing under the banner of the SRL National and the SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour Series for the first time. The Super Late Models will race for 200 laps [...]
UPDATES and HELPFUL INFORMATION: January 12, 2023
UPDATES and HELPFUL INFORMATION: January 12, 2023 DECALS FOR SUPER LATE MODELS - Attached is the 2023 SPEARS Southwest Tour Series Contingency Decal Layout and instructions. If you would like the file so you can include the decals as part of your wrap, please click link below to download. Reminder: All [...]
Scott Sanchez and Jake Bollman will Double Team at Showdown
Scott Sanchez and Jake Bollman will look to double team the competition at Irwindale Speedway on January 21st. The twin #24's will be after a $25,000 payday at the "All-Star Showdown 200", the season opener for the Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series and SRL National. Sanchez will make start [...]
Cody Kiemele Back at Irwindale Speedway
Cody Kiemele finished second the last time he visited Irwindale Speedway with the Spears Manufacturing Pro Late Models presented by Sigma Performance Services. He will now return looking to better that finish by one in the "All-Star Showdown 100" on January 21st. A win would be worth $10,000 for [...]
Chris Eggleston Makes Herculean Effort to Attend the “All-Star Showdown 200”
Bakersfield, CA – The contingent from Colorado continues to grow stronger, as Erie, CO driver Chris Eggleston has entered the $25,000-to-win “All-Star Showdown 200” on January 21st. Eggleston will be returning to Irwindale Speedway for the first time since the 2020 “All-Star Showdown”, when he was unable to make [...]
Florida’s Jake Finch Enter All-Star Showdown
Lynn Haven, Florida's Jake Finch will return to Southern California for the "All-Star Showdown 200" at Irwindale Speedway. The team will travel 2,200 miles to the $25,000-to-win event in the 17-year-olds second trip to California.
The 47th Annual Rattler 250 and the 18th Baby Rattler 125 at South Alabama Speedway Will Pay an Event Record in Prize Money
Bakersfield, CA (December 27, 2022) – The 47th running of “The Rattler” will pay a record payout for the event for Super Late Models with $25,000 to the winner and $1,600 minimum for making the starting field. Since 1974, South Alabama Speedway has been the host to “The Rattler [...]
ALL-STAR SHOWDOWN Schedule of Events, January 19th – 21st, 2023
Thursday, Janaury 19th - Optional Open Test Day 12:00pm Gates 1:00pm Mandatory All Teams Meeting 2:00 - 2:30pm SPEARS Southwest Tour Series Practice 2:30 –3:00pm Pro Late Model Series Practice & Modified Series Practice (Share the time) 3:00 – 3:40pm SPEARS Southwest Tour Series Practice 3:40 – 4:20pm [...]
SNOWBALL DERBY WINNERS! CONGRATULATIONS TO DEREK THORN & CAMPBELL MOTORSPORTS
Winners of the 55th Annual Snowball Derby at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida
The SRL National Super Late Model Tour Announces 2023 Schedule
Bakersfield, CA (December 3, 2023) – After a four-race inaugural season in 2022, the ‘SRL National Super Late Model Tour’ will more than double its schedule in 2023 with at least eight national championship events reaching from coast to coast. The ‘SRL National’ is an expansion of the “SPEARS (SRL) [...]
SPEARS Southwest Tour Series 2023 Schedule Release
SPEARS Southwest Tour Series 2023 Schedule Release Bakersfield, CA (November 29, 2022) – As we approach the last weekend of Super Late Model racing on the national calendar, the SPEARS (SRL) Southwest Tour Series is proud to announce its 2023 calendar of events. “In planning for 2023, we knew our teams [...]
Former Champions Battle to Closest Championship Finish in SRL Series History
Bakersfield, CA - Two men entered the ring at Irwindale Speedway (CA) Saturday night, and both did what they needed to do to win the Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series championship. At the end of the night, Jeremy Doss won the battle, in the “Prelude to the Showdown 100”, [...]
Seth Wise Scores Win and Championship in Spears Pro Late Model Finale
Bakersfield, CA - Seth Wise entered the season finale for the Spears Pro Late Model Series presented by Sigma Performance Services as the championship leader, toting only a single win, but nine top-five finishes in 10 events. When Wise left Irwindale Speedway (CA), he left no doubt that he [...]
Gomes and Doss to Settle Southwest Tour Series Championship at Irwindale Speedway Season Finale
Bakersfield, CA - The 2022 Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series championship will go down to the last event at Irwindale Speedway, in one of the closest battles in series history. Two former champions will battle it out in the ”2022 Spears Southwest Tour Series Finale – Prelude to the [...]
Can Buddy Shepherd make it two Irwindale Speedway victories in-a-row?
Can Buddy Shepherd make it two Irwindale Speedway victories in-a-row? Come find out on November 12th, when the Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series visits the 1/2-mile multi-groove oval for the "2022 Spears Southwest Tour Season Finale - Prelude to the Showdown 100". Shepherd scored his second series victory in [...]
Cale Kanke Rides Career High into Spears Southwest Tour Series Season Finale
Bakersfield, CA - With his best career finish of second, in the 34th Annual October Classic 134” at Kern County Raceway Park, Cale Kanke vaulted to third in the Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series championship standings. He will now look to close out the season at Irwindale Speedway, in [...]
Spangler Recalls Career Performance ahead of SRL Finale at Irwindale Speedway
Bakersfield, CA - Keith Spangler is a name synonymous with the Southwest Tour, participating in 126 starts with the NASCAR Elite Division Southwest Tour and 108 in the Spears SRL Southwest Tour Series. He has 36 “Tour” series starts at Irwindale Speedway, with 20 in the SRL. The track [...]
Irwindale Schedule for November 11 & 12
Schedule of Events November 11-12, 2022 Friday Credentials / Pit Gates Open 1:00pm PRACTICE Spears Manufacturing Modified Series 3:30pm – 4:00pm SPEARS Southwest Tour Series 4:00pm – 4:30pm SPEARS SRL Pro Late Model Series 4:30pm – 5:00pm Spears Manufacturing Modified Series 5:00pm – 5:30pm SPEARS Southwest Tour Series 5:30pm – 6:10pm SPEARS SRL Pro [...]
Championship Format Announced for SRL National
Bakersfield, CA – As a follow up to a successful first year of sanctioning Super Late Model events east of the Rockies, the ‘SRL National’ is now focused on a full schedule of races spanning coast to coast in 2023. “Even though the bulk of our ‘SRL National’ schedule will [...]
Dylan Zampa Scores October Classic Pro Late Model Victory
Bakersfield, CA - 2022 Kulwicki Driver Development Program championship leader Dylan Zampa took the lead from Tanner Reif, when the Henderson, NV driver lost power on lap 24, and went on to score his fourth victory of the Spears Pro Late Model Series season in the “Salute to the [...]
Jeremy Doss Conquers October Classic Field at Kern County Raceway Park
Bakersfield, CA - The Boss is back! Jeremy Doss had a near perfect weekend at the 34th Annual “October Classic” at Kern County Raceway Park (CA). First, he earned the PFC Brakes “Zero Drag Fast Time Award” He then took the lead from Blaine Rocha on a lap 40 [...]
